Hiob Ludolf
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German orientalist
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Hiob Ludolf's Degrees
- Bachelors Theology University of Marburg
- Masters Theology University of Marburg
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hiob or Job Ludolf , also known as Job Leutholf, was a German orientalist, born at Erfurt. Edward Ullendorff rates Ludolf as having "the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship". Life After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, he travelled in order to increase his linguistic knowledge. While searching in Rome for some documents at the request of the Swedish Court , he became friends with Abba Gorgoryos, a monk from the Ethiopian province of Amhara, and acquired from him an intimate knowledge of the Ethiopian language of Amhara.
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